Tips: Writing a birthday card

Writing birthday cards can be really hard

On average each person sends/receives 22-30 cards each year, (according to greetings card industry research) and finding unique ways to wish somebody a Happy birthday can be difficult.

So if you are struggling to write a birthday card for family, colleagues or friends I’ve scoured the internet to create this list of 100 ways to wish somebody a happy birthday. Enjoy…..

Traditional Messages

• Happy birthday
• Have a great one
• Stay strong! (A personal favourite of my friend, who writes on it every card ever sent! )
• Wishing you a wonderful birthday
• May all your birthday wishes come true this year
• I hope that your birthday is as much fun as you are
• Today is a celebration of you
• Keep calm and celebrate
• Wishing you the happiest of birthdays
• Have a totally epic birthday
• Enjoy your special day
• Another you older, another year wiser
• Here’s to a great birthday

Mix-ups, slang and short versions

• Happy anni-birth-ery
• Merry Birthmas
• HBD!
• Happy B-Day
• Happy YOU day!
• Happy year-older-you day

Short and sweet messages

• Don’t count the candles just enjoy the glow
• I hope this day is as special as you are
• The older the song, the sweeter the tune!
• The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune
• I hope your day is filled with lots of love and laughter! May all of your birthday wishes come true
• May the joy that you give others come back to you on this special day
• Wishing you a great day filled with laughter and happiness
• I wish you love, hope, and everlasting joy and happiness
• Wishing you the biggest slice of happiness today
• The day is all yours — have fun!
• Wishing you a day filled with happiness and a year filled with joy
• Sending you a birthday wish wrapped in love
• Wishing you a year of joy and adventures!
• I may not be there in person, but I’m still wishing you the happiest birthday!
• May all of your wishes come true – today and always
• Don’t count the years. Count the wishes and all the cheers
• Here’s to many more rotations around the sun
• There is something really special about your birthday! You!!
• Wishing you a pot of gold and all the happiness your heart can hold!
• Stay young at heart, you old soul!
• The more candles on your cake, the bigger the cake
• Many happy returns on the joyous occasion of the anniversary of your birth
• On your birthday may your spirit be enriched in light, love, and hope for a prosperous year ahead
• The best of your life has yet to come, embrace it, be confident, and embark on a future of limitless possibilities and opportunities
• Life is a journey. Enjoy every mile
• Today is not the end of another year, but the start of a new one
• It’s the journey that counts, not the destination
• Here’s to you and all this year has in store
• Happy birthday to someone who makes the world a better, brighter place
• Sending you positive vibes on your birthday
• You are the author of your life. Write a great year for yourself
• May you have a year of growth, a year of grace, and a year of goodness
• Forget your age and live the life your inner child wants to live!
• Another year more wonderful!

Funny and age related messages

• Happy Birthday to an old person who still knows how to party!
• Haha, you’re older than me. Happy birthday
• Congratulations on another year of skillful death evasion!
• You are young only once in life, but immaturity is forever
• Don’t let aging get you down! You won’t get back up again!
• My birthday wish for you is that your hangover tomorrow isn’t too bad
• Happy womb eviction day! don’t hesitate to ask if you need anything
• at least you’re not as old as you will be next year.
• If candle blowing were an Olympic sport, you would win a gold medal.
• You’re older today than yesterday but younger than tomorrow
• time flies when you’re having fun! How’d we get so old?
• You’re like a fine wine—you get better with age!
• Birthday calories don’t count,
• Old enough to know better. Young enough to get away with it
• Old enough to know better…Young enough to still do it
• Like a good cheese You’re aged to perfection
• Birthdays are like cheese. They stink more the older they get
• You’re not old, you’re retro.
• You’re not old; you’re youthfully challenged!
• You’re not old. You’re aged to perfection
• you’re not getting older you’re increasing in value
• you may be aging ut at least youre not expired
• Age brings new skills : You can now cough, laugh, sneeze, and pee yourself all at the same time!
• Wine is the best cure for birthdays.
• Birthdays are like holidays. You don’t have one too often and they come and go too quickly
• I’m Not Saying You’re Old But… If You Were Whiskey You Would Be Really Expensive
• Happy birthday to the only person i would rescue in a zombie apocolypse
• Have a mucking farvellous birthday!
• Don’t worry about your age… alcohol will make it all better!
• Do I have to remind you at your age that TODAY is your birthday?
• Birthdays are like your own personal Christmas!

Birthday related quotes from famous people

• Let us never know what old age is, let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years – Ausonius
• Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears – John Lennon
• Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional – Chile Davis
• Our birthdays are like feathers in the broad wings of time – Jean Paul Richter
• All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much – George Harrison
• As you get older three things happen; the first is your memory goes and I can’t remember the other two – Norman Wisdom
• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no-one alive that is you-er than you – Dr Seuss
• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come – Shakespeare
• You don’t get older, you get better – Shirley Bassey
• Live long and prosper – Mr Spock

Birthday Jokes

• What goes up and never goes down? Your age
• What do you say to a female sheep on her birthday? Happy birthday to ewe!
• Why do cats love birthdays? They love to purrty
• What does a turtle do on this birthday? He shell-a-brates
• Why did the angry Jedi cross the road? To get to the dark side!

and finally…….

I hope you enjoyed today’s blog and found it useful. Please do share it with your friends or link to this page. Also don’t forget to bookmark it for future use.

I will also publish some of these messages on my social media pages, with graphics ready for you to share online.

In the future, I will cover how to write a belated birthday card and write birth cards for colleagues.

Thanks again for reading, à bientôt, Natalie